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So for the last 5 years i have been doing a lot of travelling in canada and working as i go. And going between Australia and Canada during different season. Here are a few little tips for anyone else thinking of going to canada for the first time, and mostly for people doing the working holiday program. What is the canada working holiday program? well check it out here: https://www.whpcanada.org.au/ It is a great thing for us Australian folk who want to do some travelling, in Canada. Some of these tips may be a bit general knowledge but if they help…

this is a handly little magento extension i have used for a few magento installations. It adds some attributes to a category so you get a maulti select list box of all the filterable product attributes available and then you can have it either disable those attributes ( and enable all non selected ) or enable them ( and disable all non selected ) . Such as below… you can download the extension here: just upload the above unziped folder and contents into your magento folder. The above extension will give you these options and all but you just have…

so i have had a few clients needing the ability to have a pre-order of products in magento they are going to be stocking soon. and this is the best way i came to make it happen. firstly because the products wont be stocked yet, Manage Stock is set to No under Inventory when editing/adding a product. So now to easily be able to set a product as a pre order product we need to add some attributes. So in your Magento admin go to Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attributes and click Add New Attribute Give it an Attribute…

So i have made a few Magento stores for people/clients now that use the customer groups fairly often, and with a few modifications here and there. Today i am going to show how to have an image upload field in the customer groups and then display it on your website for the user of that group. It is very handy when you want to do branding for certain high profile customers in Magento. So first we need to add the field to the database. I myself use phpMyAdmin. so if you have a cPanel hosting account you should have this….

Here is a nice simple way to make your store only viewable by registered users. And if someone is not registered and tried to view any page they will be taken to the registration form. This can be changes so a guest is shown any page you want. this magento modification goes well with my previous post of restricting user registration to only certain email domains. So check that our after this. in your design package you have in your page folder ( Magento Folder/app/design/frontend/*yourdesignpackage*/default/template/page ) different template files for each kind of page. Example: for a page with one…